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| - This experience had me thinking ? Am I polak ? What defines a polak or a Polish-American ? I know the food more than the language....
Philosophical waxing out of the way for now [I'll wax on yelp later]. This place is okay if you're looking for some 'Polish' cooking.
What bothered me about the menu was that it's more Americanized than I anticipated than for a Little Polish Diner (maybe that's what they name by a Little Polish ? ' Hi-ho!)
The place itself is tiny, seating no more with 30 with 105.7, oldies in the background.
The menu is small which I don't mind. Daily specials, Thursday was beef day, with beef stew for $9.50. Saturday is Chicken Day. I opted for a Polish Boy, for $6.50. It wasn't bad. It was kielbasa and saukerkraut (sour, salty, not the sweet kind) on a hoagie bun. I would have liked to have onions or a sauce on it, but shame on me for not asking. On the plus side, the kielbasa was not fatty and tasted authentic in that it was probably from Krakow Foods (across the street) or a butcher @ the WSM, tasted exactly the same as I've had all my life. This is niggling, but why serve French Fries with the kielbasa ?! How about dumplings ? The
As a side, I also ordered a blintz for $2. Dashed with powdered sugar, filled with slightly sweet cheese, and optional canned strawberry sauce [what, no figs or prunes ?!] My dad, who I also had some of the tour of Poland which gives a good amount of the Polish highlights to sample for $10.95, enough for a full meal. The stuffed cabbage had rice in it and very little sauce. The cumcumber salad, my dad ordered it, and it was the size of a tartar sauce container from a church fish fry ! Though it's only 1.75, but how about a little more than that..
In the end, the food exactly how my mom, [2nd-gen if you care] makes polish food. Not necessarily a compliment but not snark either. Not very useful all of you, probably. I sort of felt cheated in that, I could have had it at home for cheaper.
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